A Yi’s novel, A Perfect Crime illustrates the life of a troubled teen spectacularly. The main character, whom we eventually find out is named Su, had a thirst for blood that needed to be quenched. Su invited one his only friends to his house one day, a talented violinist who goes to his school. He murdered his friend brutally, stuffed her into a washing machine, and fled town. Immediately, Su wanted to hide himself in the crowds of China’s streets to evade any sort of punishment, which is generally quite harsh in China. The use of glasses in A Yi's, A Perfect Crime, symbolizes secrecy when the main character, Su, is on the run through China’s most densely populated cities.
In the beginning of the story, glasses were used by the main character, Su, to hide his identity. In the start of the story, when pondering what to buy as a disguise, Su said, “the more you try to disguise yourself, the more you stick out, so I chose a pair of normal glasses instead of sunglasses”. (Page 1) This new look not only gave him a new identity, but also the confidence to hide from the police. This is when he committed the murder against one of his only friends and decided to go on the run. The punishment for murder in China is quite harsh. Even daily
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Soon after Su’s family arrived back home, where the murder took place, they alerted officials. Su knew that this would happen, so he put on his new outfit and hopped on the next train out of his town. This is the point when paranoia started to get the best of him. He saw officials on the train, and that really spooked him, so he decided to hide in the train’s bathroom. Soon after he went in, vicious knocking on the bathroom door occurred. Thinking he was caught, he waited a few minutes before he came out, but when he exited, he just found a man who really needed to use the restroom. As of then, he had avoided suspicion of his